DRBC's summer 2014 water quality monitoring efforts are underway, and staff are and will be keeping busy in the field this season sampling the Delaware River and various tributaries to support programs that include the following:

These monitoring efforts are important because water resources cannot be properly managed if they are not measured. DRBC's monitoring programs help to protect and restore water quality in the basin by providing a mechanism to evaluate how water quality criteria are being met and allow for data to be assessed.